The Rhetoric and Reality of Mobility and Migration in Higher Education: The Case of the University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

It is not difficult to find in the very large literature on mobility and migration (M&M) in higher education (HE) soaring language about how the world has forever or is in the process of being changed by globalization and internationalization and how these social phenomena have particularly impacted the world’s universities and colleges. It is noted that the movement of students, scholars, skilled talent, ideas, institutional structures, the structure of knowledge, and almost everything else associated with what I will refer to going forward as M&M, are a key part of these phenomena, ushering in a new age of HE particularly in the Asia-Pacific region (for bibliographic citations of the breadth of this literature and discussion of these trends see Childress 2010; Kell and Vogl 2010; Wildavsky 2010 among others). Much of the literature is focused, as one might expect, on the movement of students and scholars through the region (here meant to include the United States as a Pacific nation); less attention has been placed on institutional change as a result of these and other movements. And the bulk of the literature on M&M places it squarely in the context of the broader mega trends of globalization and its predecessor, internationalization.KeywordsInternational StudentForeign StudentBranch CampusJoint DegreeFaculty HiringThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.